A Time to Kill: Review and Commentary

Throughout the film, A time to Kill, Carl Lee Hailey bases his plea in the trial on him being legally insane at the time of killing the people who raped his daughter. From a legal standpoint, this would mean that Carl Lee could not tell right from wrong at the time of the shooting. Though the viewer knows this to be false, most people turn a blind eye as they know that the people Carl Lee killed committed a heinous act on his daughter. This, however, should not make what Carl Lee did right as there is a multitude of problems with not only shooting into a crowd but also lying about being insane in court. At a point before Carl kills Pete and Billy Rey, he goes to Jake and tells him what he is planning to do. While Jake is hesitant to believe

The stories intertwine with each other in an innumerable amount of ways yet at other times seem to completely contradict the other's message. A great similarity to point out between the stories would be that they are both about a man who seeks justice for crimes he was accused of. However, these stories have enough in common with each other only to warrant a short comparison as they have a greater amount of themes and ideas not in common with each other. A Time to Kill is told from the perspective of a lawyer rather than the

The film uses juror three to demonstrate how past experiences can influence ones prejudice in decision making. Juror 3, who has a prejudice against the accused, and thinks the kid is under-privileged and doesn’t deserve a second chance, which is reason enough for him to conclude the accused is guilty. As the discussion continues as to the verdict of the trial, juror three grows frustrated and angrily refutes, “What is this? Love your under- privileged bother week or something? (12 Angry Men). Due to his past experiences with young men, he is ready to sentence the defendant to death with weak circumstantial evidence, grows angry as the other jurors question what he refers to as “facts” and claims “You can’t refute facts” (12 Angry Men) As all the Jurors except juror twelve get more and more frustrated by the slowed process, juror three begins to see through his prejudice, and disperses the other jurors interruptions by saying “Be quiet, we’ll all get a turn”(12 Angry Men). It finally becomes clear, he sees similarities with his son he had a falling out with several years ago, and puts this prejudice aside and excepts that the evidence is too circumstantial to convict a kid for murder, and sentence him to death.

While Jake is trying his best to build up a sense of credibility for Carl, The opposite side who's defending the men are trying to get him to look untrustworthy so the jury can decide how they feel. One way his credibility was questioned was when the doctor who was put on stand was convicted of Statutory rape. but one way he had a positive credibility is because he didn’t go out to just kill people, he did it because they raped his daughter.

n the story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, it is very hard to miss the odd behaviors of General zaroffboth before and after revealing his hunt for men. After revealing his intentions, zaroff acts as if his game is a normal part of his life and does not acknowledge his hunt as anything abnormal. However, these aspects of Zaroff's character does not necessarily mean he is guilty of his acts. General Zaroffis not guilty of murder because of his presumed insanity throughout the story and his lack of the perception of right and wrong,as well as a lack of empathy. In the story, Zaroff's personality is observed as a little more than strange, especially considering how open he is with Rainsford about his game. I am strong. Why should I

The killing by Andre Dubus can be a love story by the following conditions throughout the story. Matt Fowler has the unconditional love as any parent would have for his family, especially in the untimely murder of his child Matt. In addition, there is the love from his girlfriend Mary-Ann, who is not yet divorced yet from Richard Strout who is not ready to let go and want his family back at any cost including murder.

Hunting is a hobby maid for people who likes to be outside. In the story “The most dangerous game” by Richard Connell shows that it takes skill and practice to survive. Zaroff demonstrates that he is skillful, careless, and harmful.

The general sucked in his breath and smiled. “I congratulate you,” he said. “You have won the game.”

He is hunched down in the bushes, a .22-caliber pistol in his hand.  His blood-red lips split open in a smile as he watches his prey writhing, blood spouting from the wound, dry green leaves becoming wet crimson.  Then, with a terrible pleasure, he places the gun against the skull of his prey and fires one last round.  The hunter, brimming with sadism, drags his kill behind him, leaving a trail of blood behind on the ground.  Human blood.  This premise of man hunting man is one set up by Richard Connell’s short story The Most Dangerous Game.

"A Time to Kill" is a movie set in rural Mississippi in the 1980s, and it highlights racial issues which were present at that period. The story revolves around a Black ten-year-old girl named Tonya Hailey, who was raped by two White men. Subsequently, in an act of revenge, Tonya's father, Carl Lee Hailey, murders his daughter's rapists and cripples a deputy by accident in the process. Carl Lee is then arrested and tried for murder. He employs a White local lawyer, Jake Brigance, to defend his case.

In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell entertains readers with a story of a mysterious island inhabited by a dark, violent, soul. Rainsford, the protagonist, hears superstitious stories about “Ship-Trap Island” that he does not believe, but he soon learns that the evil surrounding the island stems from a hunter called General Zaroff. General Zaroff is a thrill-seeking character full of racist arrogance. General Zaroff is bored easily and is constantly searching for new hunting challenges to entertain him. He states clearly to Rainsford, “I live for danger.”

A Time to Kill is a film set in a small, segregated Southern town where Tonya Hailey was brutally beaten and raped by two white males named Pete Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Carl Lee Hailey, Tonya’s father, soon found out about the incident and wants to seek justice. Knowing the strong possibility that the two men will walk free due to the color of their skin, Carl Lee decides to revenge kill the two bigoted men. Carl Lee asks for Jake Brigance to defend him in court, and Jake agrees to take on the case despite the odds against them.

Imagine being stuck in a town filled with Cranks, people infected with the Flare, a deadly virus known to cause major damage to the brain. In the novel, The Kill Order retold by James Dashner, the survivor of a life-threatening attack, Mark, and his friends reveal their friendship between themselves in a desolate town filled with crazy people who will do anything for food, even if it means killing other humans.

The play, 12 Angry Men, and the film, A Time to Kill, have a similar theme. In 12 Angry Men, a Latino is accused of stabbing his father to death, where a guilty verdict would mean a death sentence. In A Time to Kill, a black man took the law into his own hands, killing two alleged rapists and the sentence for this man, if found guilty meant death in a gas chamber. The play and film both involve prejudice against two commonly accused minorities in America. All jurors were white and with the combination of racism it made it seem like injustice was certain. For example, Jake Brigance, the lawyer for Carl Lee filed for a change of venue. The reason for this was that he

A Review and Commentary On:A Time to Kill By John GrishamA Time to Kill written by John Grisham is a book that presents the high racial tensions in Canton Mississippi in the early 1990’s. The book opens with two young men, James Lewis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb, joy riding in their brand new yellow pick up truck decked out with Confederate flags. They speed though black neighborhoods throwing full beer bottles at people and houses, until they come across ten-year-old Tonya Hailey walking home from the grocery store. The men pull over, trap her, rape her repeatedly, beat her, hang her, throw her off a bridge and leave her for dead. Her siblings find Tonya later that day, barely alive, her father, Carl Lee Hailey., and the black community